The World Beyond The Hill: Science Fiction And The Quest For Transcendence - Plot & Excerpts
The advent of this self-described “new sort of magazine”200 was an indication that one major phase in the development of SF was drawing to a close and another stage about to begin.In the Age of Technology which started around 1870, as we’ve been able to see, it became possible for the first time to frankly assert that science was transcendence in new guise. In pursuit of scientific mystery, SF in its various forms laid claim to the future and to the past, traveled to the farthest reaches of time-to-come, journeyed to other planets, ventured into the microcosm, discovered alternate worlds, and postulated a further endless multitude of systems and dimensions.This extravagant and dubious literature-in-becoming even had the nerve to tackle the most basic questions facing contemporary Western civilization—the true nature of the relationships between man and society and between man and the universe—and to offer wholly new answers to them. But there weren’t a whole lot of people who were prepared to admire SF for this.
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